Hi felix et al: Louis> I have very basic questions. See below.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Felix Sheldon > Sent: Tuesday, 25 March 2003 00:03 > To: LS > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Re: [[SLUG] VNC on Live Server for RH 7.1 [Next Round]]] > > > On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 23:15, LS wrote: > > My Reply under "Louis>" > > > <snip> > > Hi Louis, > > > What I need to know now is how do I make the vnc connection > secure via > > SSH. Anyone knows how to do this ? I remember reading about > this from > > a url on the web. I can't find that url anymore. Anyway I did not > > really understand it properly. > > > > I can help with this bit at least, you can use the -L option > to SSH to forward the VNC port on the server to a local port. > > ssh -C -L listen-port:host:port > > If VNC on your server is on port 5500, you might do: Louis> How do I find out the vnc server port number when I start vncserver ? > > ssh -C -L 5501:server-ip-address:5500 Louis> Are you saying here, from Putty or Teraterm I connect to my server using the above command. Once connected to the server I start vncserver ? Is "ssh" the ssh daemon ? Why is listen port is "5501" ? Is it always one higher than the vnc port number ? > > then, on your local machine (not in the ssh session) you can type: > > vncviewer localhost:5501 Louis> Do I really enter "localhost" or "ip_address_of_server:5501" ? After I start vncviewer ? Cheers Louis. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
